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Post by noxy on Sept 3, 2008 4:24:16 GMT -4
Here are the changes:
Announcement Date: September 1, 2008 Effective Date: September 20, 2008 Magic Online Effective Date: September 17, 2008
Extended Sensei's Divining Top is banned
Legacy Time Vault is banned*
Vintage Time Vault is restricted* Chrome Mox is no longer restricted Dream Halls is no longer restricted Mox Diamond is no longer restricted Personal Tutor is no longer restricted Time Spiral is no longer restricted
Please make sure to remove your Sensei's divining top from your decks for the next Extended tourney!
Cheers, Olivier
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Post by noxy on Sept 3, 2008 3:11:30 GMT -4
Guys,
Here is the Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday schedule for September and October:
Tue 02/09: SHM/SHM/EVE Booster Draft Thu 04/09: SHM/SHM/EVE Booster Draft Sat 06/09: Block Constructed
Tue 09/09: SHM/SHM/EVE Booster Draft Thu 11/09: Block Constructed Sat 13/09: Sealed
Tue 16/09: SHM/SHM/EVE Booster Draft Thu 18/09: Extended Sat 20/09: Block Constructed
Tue 23/09: SHM/SHM/EVE Booster Draft Thu 25/09: Shadowmoor/Eventide Sealed Sat 27/09: Standard (Type 2) - Last Timespiral-legal Type 2!!! -- Start of the Type2 Season!
Tue 30/09: SHM/SHM/EVE Booster Draft Thu 02/10: Unannounced Sat 04/10: Shards of Alara Release Party (to be confirmed)
Tue 07/10: SHM/SHM/EVE Booster Draft (last SHM draft) Thu 09/10: Unannounced Sat 11/10: Standard (Type2)
Tue 14/10: SOA/SOA/SOA Booster Draft (woot!) Thu 16/10: Standard (Type2) (to be confirmed) Sat 18/10: Cube Draft or Sealed
Tue 21/10: SOA/SOA/SOA Booster Draft Thu 23/10: Extended Sat 25/10: Standard (Type2)
October announces big changes with the rotation of Timespiral Block out of Standard and the release of Shards of Alara. It also marks the start of the new Standard (Type 2) Season.
We'll also try to introduce a Cube Draft once a month on Saturday - I hope everyone likes it!
Cheers, Olivier
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Post by noxy on Sept 3, 2008 1:47:08 GMT -4
Hey there guys, My name is Omid and I'm an ex-Magic player craving to get back into the scene again. Found you guys after googling for hours and I must say that I'm excited. I haven't been playing for years and I've got my entire collection back home in Sweden. But I'm definitely heading over for the next draft you guys are having. Could you guys fill me in on the lingo that you're using? In the dates below, when you say "booster" do you mean a normal draft? And what is block? Booster 9/4 Block 9/11 Extended 9/18 2 Headed Giant Sealed 9/26 Do you guys play T2 and Extended or is there any T1 action going on as well? Looking forward to meeting you all! Cheers, Omid Hi Omid, Welcome, we hope to see you at the Rydges soon! By "booster draft" we understand the standard draft with 3 boosters that everyone is used to play (at the moment it's Shadowmoor/Shadowmoor/Eventide boosters). The constructed formats we tend to play are mainly Standard (Type 2) and Block (same but latest extentions only - Lorwyn/Morningtide/Shadowmoor/Eventide). We do not play older formats as T1, T1.5 because not many people have got the cards but we certainly aim to play at least one extended per month. Cheers, Olivier
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Post by noxy on Sept 2, 2008 9:51:47 GMT -4
Booster 9/4 Block 9/11 Extended 9/18 2 Headed Giant Sealed 9/26 As a important note. WOTC has change their Oganized Play Network. My U.S.A WPN Lvl of Core will not be allowed here in the UAE????don't ask!!! So currently UAE is Gateway eligible only. This means I can sanction any type of event online and on the fly, but we will not have FNM or Pre-Releases until next set after Shards. Until my WPN lvl rises to Core in UAE we are S.O.L. BUT WOTC is aware of this and they are slightly sympathetic to our cause. I have been assured that I will be able to FNM and Pre-releases again after Shards. They currently dont think much of the UAE as a market so until we get more venues and more TO's operating here we will not be getting much Corporate support. SO... FNM: We will continue to have FNM here. I will be giving away unique foils from my collection as usual but the events will now be 16K. PRE-RELEASES: Well honestly we are a bit screwded till the next release. I think we will be able to have the Release event though, but not PRE-RELEASE. What you can do...get more new players and come to every event. I will be running more events as FREE to bolster participation, but prizes in this cas will be very limited...as it is FREE. It would also be good to have 1 or 2 more people request TO status under the new WPN system from WOTC. I can help with this if needed. So thank you all, and GAME ON! I'll register myself for TO asap, already got the program running anyway. I'll keep organizing the Tuesday Draft and will propose a different calendar to everyone for the Tuesday and Saturday - more centered on limited play. There should also be "seasons" alternating block and type2 (standard) over the course of the year, to help a real metagame developing. I'll make sure that we can keep playing regular limited events (6 per month minimum) and that we will be able to have a pre-release and release. Cheers, Oliv.
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Post by noxy on Sept 1, 2008 16:16:07 GMT -4
Hey everyone!
As it became usual now, I'll be making a draft this Tuesday 02/09 at the Rydges.
Since last time I heard it finished quite (very) late and we can't really have that happening again cause all of us are working, here is how we are going to proceed:
Where: Rydges Plaza When: doors open @ 18:30; Event is from 19:30 to 22:45 Format: SHM/SHM/EVE Booster Draft - 3 rounds of 45 minutes (no 4th round).
How: At 19:30 the draft will start regardless of the number of players. If we happen to have less than 8 players (didnt happen yet) we will turn it into a team draft with 6 players (3v3 - 3 rounds).
More about team drafting: The team draft (also called money draft) rules are the following: There will be two teams of 3 players, each team will be seated as usual around the table (alternating each team) and draft individually. There will be 3 rounds and for each match won, the team scores one point. The first team at 5 points wins and gets the prize (3 boosters per player).
NB: If we have 14 people showing up, we will run the main draft with 8 ppl (first come first serve) and a side-event team draft with 6 ppl. In case of 16 players there will be 2 drafts.
See you all on Tuesday!
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Post by noxy on Sept 1, 2008 15:37:41 GMT -4
I'll finalize the schedule for Sept tomorrow with Derek and the others and publish it here on Wednesday.
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Post by noxy on Aug 24, 2008 5:53:07 GMT -4
I'm back, so I'll be there! Prizes will be eventide boosters only, in order to give ppl more new cards.
See you all on Tuesday, Olivier
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Post by noxy on Aug 17, 2008 16:24:17 GMT -4
hey guys,
I hope you'll enjoy the draft while I'm away. I'll see you all on my return next tuesday.
btw, it's 1.5 booster per participant. 12 boosters for 8 ppl 15 boostesr for 10 ppl (like last tuesday). 27 boosters for 18 ppl.
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Post by noxy on Aug 9, 2008 16:38:50 GMT -4
Thanks to all who came, it was a fun and smooth event. The 4 rounds swiss went by pretty quickly and the top4 was completed by 11pm. Grats to Pierre who took the first place!
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Post by noxy on Aug 9, 2008 2:18:34 GMT -4
I think it will be a draft (SSE) if Derek turns up it will also be santactioned. 7 pm start My boxes's arrival just got delayed by a day so unless we've got other stuff to draft with, we'll have to play standard or block. Sry about that!
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Post by noxy on Aug 7, 2008 12:38:31 GMT -4
we can draft or play constructed, as ppl wish
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Post by noxy on Aug 6, 2008 12:38:54 GMT -4
Hallo, unfortunately I wont be playing because my liege (Marianne), is leaving for holidays that night. I'll be dropping by to say hi and cheer you up though! I'll be there on Sunday as well
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Post by noxy on Jul 31, 2008 3:58:31 GMT -4
yup i'm also off today, pm your # to arrange timing
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Post by noxy on Jul 27, 2008 8:50:00 GMT -4
i dunno if i can cube draft... only thing i have 5 of is korlash :s Important: YOU do not need ANY cards at all, since I/Akin will be bringing the cards we are going to play with. Cheers, Olivier
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Post by noxy on Jul 27, 2008 4:43:16 GMT -4
Hey guys, I'd like to build a Cube to draft once a week or every 2 weeks. What is Cube Drafting? Simply put, it's a pool of cards that is put together, containing a lot of powerful cards taken from all editions and that you draft with a minium of 4 people. So you end up drafting the best cards ever printed in MtG and building a deck with it. A lot of fun and power, and a potential substitute to other formats that we are not playing at the moment in the UAE (Type 1, 1.5, Extended) because we do not have the cards. For more information here are some sources: mtgsalvation.com/868-tokyo-draft-a-cube-report.htmlThe cube list i plan on using at the beginningwww.cubedrafting.comBtw: for the cards I do not own, we'd be putting proxies and I'll try to get the missing ones when possible. Anyone interested? Let me know and we could give it a shot this week.
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